Great inventions Quote by Warren Buffett Download Open image “I think the FDIC was one of the great inventions of the American.” — Warren Buffett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Great inventions Innovation Invention Thinking
There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
When the secretary of treasury, the head of the central bank, the head of the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.), and the head of… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
I felt that the Fed had always been the agency that picked up the pieces when there was a financial crisis, and it was… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
We support too big to fail. We want the government to be able to take down a big bank like JP Morgan and it… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
American federalism was the embodiment of political tolerance and decentralization - the expression of the liberal conviction that society can manage itself and needs… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers, regular men who did great things together, established this system along with other regular men. — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
I mean [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt didn't - you know, when he came in, he didn't print any money. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The WPA was one of the most productive elements of FDR's alphabet soup of agencies because it put people to work building roads, bridges,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The Federalist Society has made important contributions to the nation's understanding of our constitutional heritage. — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.” — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally-and certainly not in reinsurance-as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It is better to point out your own mistakes than have somebody else do it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I've read about all the sales today. If you're an auto dealer, you're feeling it. If you're a furniture retailer like we are, you're… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to be born in a time and place where society values my talent, and gave me a good education to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in which posterity… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. It conquered the wilderness, built our railroads, our factories,… — George B. Cortelyou Copy Share Image
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You make commerce… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
There is first the problem of acquiring content, which is learning. There is another problem of acquiring learning skills, which is not merely learning,… — Ralph W. Gerard Copy Share Image
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and experiments. They… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation of minor… — Robert Henry Thurston Copy Share Image
I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Somehow I felt that if Fox Talbot had had more time and more drawing talent, he would have filled in the interval between his… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image